Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 8

This tool is not meant to be a replacement for our weekly player rankings, although matchups are taken into consideration for those as well. You shouldn't bench a stud player who has a difficult matchup or automatically start a fantasy backup who has an easy matchup. It's meant to be a helpful tool when deciding between two closely ranked players. The matchups are graded on how many fantasy points the opposing team surrendered to this position on average.

• QB
• RB
• WR
• TE
• K
• DEF

Easiest Matchups

1. Denver vs. (allows 21.4 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Peyton Manning, QB2 Brock Osweiler
2. Minnesota vs. Green Bay (allows 20.6 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Christian Ponder (Que), QB2 Matt Cassel
3. St. Louis vs. Seattle (allows 19.9 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Sam Bradford, QB2 Kellen Clemens
4. Tampa Bay vs. Carolina (allows 19.9 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Josh Freeman, QB2 Dan Orlovsky
5. Atlanta at Arizona (allows 19.8 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Matt Ryan (Pro), QB2 Domanique Davis
6. Pittsburgh at Oakland (allows 19.1 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Ben Roethlisberger, QB2 Bruce Gradkowski
7. Dallas at Detroit (allows 18.8 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Tony Romo (Pro), QB2 Kyle Orton
8. Kansas City vs. Cleveland (allows 18.6 points per game to QBs)
   QB2 Alex Smith, QB2 Chase Daniel
9. Oakland vs. Pittsburgh (allows 18.3 points per game to QBs)
   QB2 Matt Flynn, QB2 Terrelle Pryor
10. Green Bay at Minnesota (allows 17.8 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Aaron Rodgers (Pro), QB2 Graham Harrell

Toughest Matchups

1. Buffalo at New Orleans (allows 0.0 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 E.J. Manuel, QB2 Kevin Kolb (IR)
2. Cincinnati vs. New York Jets (allows 0.0 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Andy Dalton, QB2 Josh Johnson
3. Washington at Denver (allows 12.5 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Robert Griffin III (Out), QB2 Kirk Cousins
4. Detroit vs. Dallas (allows 13.0 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Matthew Stafford, QB2 Shaun Hill
5. San Francisco at (allows 13.1 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Colin Kaepernick, QB2 Colt McCoy
6. Carolina at Tampa Bay (allows 13.5 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Cam Newton (Pro), QB2 Derek Anderson
7. Arizona vs. Atlanta (allows 14.6 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Carson Palmer (Pro), QB2 Drew Stanton, QB4 Ryan Lindley
8. Miami at New England (allows 14.8 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Ryan Tannehill, QB2 Matt Moore
9. New Orleans vs. Buffalo (allows 15.0 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Drew Brees, QB2 Luke McCown
10. Philadelphia vs. New York Giants (allows 15.1 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Michael Vick, QB2 Nick Foles (IR), QB4 Matt Barkley